Garment packaging form



April 17, 1934. GREVE 1,955,708

GARMENT PACKAGI NG FORM Filed June 8, 1932 BY W mask.)

A ORNEYS Patented Apr. 17, 1934 N TAEg P TEN ()FFECE GARMENT PACKAGING FORM Long Island City, N. Y.

Application June 8, 1932, Serial No. 616,006

1 Claim.

My invention relates to garment packaging forms and has for its principal object the provision of an improved shirt board, by means of which a shirt or similar garment may be supported and held in a neatly folded individual package for handling, packing or display Without the employment of pins or other perforating instruments likely to tear or injure the fabric.

Another object is to provide a form of this character which may be produced very cheaply, without waste, and upon which a garment may be speedily assembled with a minimum of effort.

A further object is to provide a board embodying the foregoing features of advantage which will support a shirt in its laundered folds without covering or otherwise obscuring the bosom thereof, and which will carry a display surface on the reverse side of the package for printed advertising matter or for identification marks, such as stock, lot, style and size markings.

Referring to the drawing which forms a part of this specification:

Figure l is a plan view of a shirt board embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is an inverted plan View of the board and a shirt partly folded in position thereon.

Figure 3 is a plan view illustrating the shirt supported and held in packaged position by the form.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the reverse side and an edge of the packaged shirt illustrated in Figure 3.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, my improved shirt board consists of a single oblong sheet of cardboard or other similar material scored at 10 to facilitate crosswise folding thus dividing the sheet into an oblong shirt supporting portion 11 and a flap-like fastening portion 12. Oppositely secured to the side edges of portion 12 and extending outwardly therefrom are fasteners 13 and 13, preferably formed of pliable metal having a high degree of resistance to oxidation or coated with a material having rust proofing qualities.

Any or all surfaces of the sheet may be employed to carry printed matter of the manufacturer of the board, the maker of the shirt or the laundry servicing the garment. However, any printing to be displayed when the board is serving its packaging purpose must be carried by one side of the portion 12, as indicated at 14.

To assemble the shirt on the board, the ironed garment is placed bosom down on a suitable table and the board is positioned thereover with the score line 10 adjacent the neckband of the shirt. The sleeves, shoulder points and side seams of the shirt are then wrapped over the side edges of the portion 11 onto the back of the board (see Figure 2) and the lower portion of the shirt is folded up over the lower edge of the board so that its skirt end lies adjacent the score line. Thereupon the portion 12 is bent down along the score line and the outwardly extending portions of the fasteners 13 are sharply bent downwardly and inwardly over the margins of the shirt bosom to the positions shown in Figure 3.

With little practice this assembly operation is accomplished with great speed. When the garment has been folded over the portion 11 and the portion 12 has been folded down over the skirt of the garment or shirt tail, as above described, the bending in of the fasteners 13 to secure the packaged assembly is performed in the act of picking up the package from the table by simply grasping the package along its opposite side edges adjacent the fasteners and turning the fasteners downwardly and inwardly by a simultaneous movement of the fingers.

Although, as previously described, printed matter may be carried by any or all surfaces of the sheet, I have found that there is advantage in confining such matter to the display surface provided by the face of portion 12 inasmuch as this surface is on the exterior of the package and need never come in contact with the garment Where printing ink might be transferred onto the fabric.

I have also found utility for the transverse marginal edge of the portion 12 where it is desired to hang the packaged shirt from a projecting nail or hook as for display in a store window; or the package may be conveniently suspended on a line engaged below the fasteners 13 under the portion 12.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

A garment packaging form of the character described comprising a single oblong and rectangular sheet of pliable material transversely divided by a score line to provide an oblong garment supporting portion and a rectangular securing portion of lesser length, said score line serving to faciltate relative folding of said portions and said securing portion having its side edges in the plane of the side edges of the garment supporting portion, when folded, for reinforcing the form at the collar supported end of a garment to maintain the garment in smooth and fiat condition, and fasteners secured to the opposite side edges of said securing portion adjacent the free corners thereof, said fasteners being adapted to secure said portions in fixed folded relation to each other and to hold a garment in position on said form.

HERMAN L. GREVE. 

